The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess

025 – The Three Problematic but Strongest #3

025 – The Three Problematic but Strongest #3

“Hey! Namjin! Are you okay? Eating a monster!”

Kim Taesung ran to me, checking the size of my pupils or snapping his fingers to check my consciousness. I was fine.

My solar plexus felt stiff as if I had indigestion, but it was bearable.

Twitch, twitch-.

The problem was that Yingying wasn’t staying still in my stomach and kept moving.

I felt like I was going to vomit, but I had to suppress it somehow.

“I’m ugh, fine!”

“Friend! Well done! The 2 million points are ours! Succeeding in monster hunting twice in a row during practice! This is the first such achievement in our D-class!”

While Changsik was rejoicing, Yoo Yeoreum and his team members couldn’t easily leave, seemingly regretting that the credit for the monster hunt was taken from them.

Beep-.

At that moment, the alarm on our smartwatches signaled the end of the exercise. Now, we just had to find the “exit” marked on the map to finish the exercise.

“Next time, I won’t let it be taken.”

Yoo Yeoreum muttered a single word in a blunt manner and then disappeared into the distance with her team members.

I also thought it would be best to leave this place quickly to calm my churning stomach, so I started to move.

“It seems the nearest exit is in the building where we started. Let’s head there.”

Since it was just a matter of retracing our steps, finding the exit wasn’t too difficult, but a small problem arose. We ran into some annoying guys right in front of the exit.

“You b*stard! Han Namjin!”

He was a guy with thin, irritating features.

What was his name again?

“Was it Mantis?”

“It’s Same Jun!”

Right, that was his name.

A thug I met at Seo Ga-eul’s party.

Wang Ja-hyun’s lackey? Henchman? He was someone you could call that.

Where is Wang Ja-hyun? No, that’s not important right now.

Of all times, I had to run into these guys when my stomach was acting up. Was it the “bad luck” of Bbangdaengi at work?

I looked at the “door” installed next to them.

If I go through there, I can return to school.

But Sama Jun seemed to think this was his moment and started causing trouble.

“We’ve occupied this door. If you want to leave, go to another door. Of course, it’ll take you more than 10 minutes to get to another door! If you don’t like it, fight us.”

Telling us to go around for 10 minutes with the exit right in front of us? It was blatant harassment.

He must have held a grudge from what happened last time.

Not very much. If I had known this would happen, I should have crushed his marbles and turned him into a girl last time.

No, maybe this is a good opportunity to solidify that mantis-like guy’s gender identity, I thought, as Baek Yeoul shouted.

“If… if you want to fight us, we won’t just stand by! I’ll curse you! A curse of… bad luck! I don’t know what will happen! You’ve been warned! “

A curse of bad luck?

Could Bbangdaengi do something like that? Bbangdaengi looked at Deoksoon and shouted softly.

“Deoksoon! Remember the plan we talked about at Changshik’s house yesterday! I think it’s time to use it! When I shout, erase the surrounding sounds!”

“…Are you really going to do it…? And my name is Deokhee, not Deoksoon….”

I didn’t know what it was, but it seemed like Bbangdaengi and Deoksoon had pre-arranged some kind of plan. Just as I was getting more nervous, Bbangdaengi dashed towards the students of Class F.

The students of Class F burst into laughter.

“Baek Yeoul? What are you going to do, you who can’t even control your abilities properly? I’m Sama Jun! Sama Jun of the ‘Torch Lighter’! Even if I just blow, the flames─.”

“Duksun, now!”

Baek Yeoul shouted.

Soon, Duksun started dancing wildly with a feeling of ‘whatever, I don’t care.’ With that, the noise around us was completely erased.

Silence itself.

In our eyes, we could see Baek Yeoul mouthing something noisily and the dumbfounded expressions of Sama Jun’s Class F members.

After about 20 seconds, Duksun’s dance ended.

Huff, huff—Duksun was catching her breath when the Class F guys shouted.

“A letter that started in 20th century England? If you don’t send it to seven people, misfortune will come? What kind of nonsense prank is this!”

“What, did you think you were going to do something amazing!”

What on earth had happened?

Duksun, having caught her breath, explained in a small voice.

“Yeoul recited a chain letter. A letter that says if you don’t send the same content to seven people, you’ll have an extremely unlucky day… Only those guys could hear it.”

In other words, when Duksun set up a soundproof barrier around us, Baek Yeoul recited the ‘chain letter’ so only those guys could hear it.

Does that even work? Duksun also shook her head, saying, “Honestly, I don’t know if it works either…”

But Bbangdaengi was filled with great confidence.

“You guys will be unlucky for the next few days! The only way to make up for it is to send the letter I mentioned to someone else! I warned you!”

Now that I look at it, Baek Yeoul’s eyes were half-crazed. Like someone who had taken drugs, she had gone completely mad. Wasn’t the pink dye the problem after all?

“Damn, I can’t play with you anymore.”

Sama Jun seemed to give up on fitting into this bizarre stage.

Whoosh—.

Flames burning on his palm.

Was Sama Jun a fire manipulator? No wonder he was so annoying.

“…Uh, what should we do.”

“Friend! This is a crisis itself!”

For now, Duksun and Changsik were useless in a fight.

“You guys! I warned you! You’d better start writing the letter now!”

─Bbangdaengi was not in her right mind.

Should I step in─that was what I was thinking.

“Namjin, you should rest. You’re not in good shape after fighting with Yooreum.”

Step, step. Geum Taesung stepped forward.

Then, even the relaxed face of Samajun showed a slight tension.

“Geum Taesung, I heard you said you wouldn’t fight anymore?”

“I never said that.”

Geum Taesung lightly tripped Samajun’s ankle.

“Ah!”

Samajun, who was properly hit by Geum Taesung’s wasabari, fell to the ground. Unfortunately, there was a protruding stone on the ground, and his head hit it with a thud.

“Ugh!”

Samajun, with his eyes rolled back and foaming at the mouth.

“Majun!”

“You b*stard!”

Soon, Samajun’s companions tried to attack Geum Taesung for revenge, but the lump of fire in Samajun’s hand caused trouble.

Whoosh-! Boom-!

“Ahhh!”

“Yikes!”

Samajun and his companions were eventually caught in the flames they had created and were blown away.

Unlucky b*stards.

“See! What did I say! I told you they’d be unlucky! Tahaiaat!”

Was the ‘lucky letter’ that Bangdaengi mentioned really effective?

Honestly, even I was starting to doubt it.

# # #

“The top performer in this practice is ‘No Leftovers Day.’ I never thought there would be students in Class D, which I supervise, who would succeed in hunting monsters consecutively, what kind of magic did you use?”

“It’s not magic, it’s skill. Actually, it’s thanks to my excellent leadership, but saying that wouldn’t sound very humble, so I’ll give credit to all the team members.”

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh-. I rubbed my nose with my finger awkwardly.

Everyone clapped for us, who came in first place, and it felt really good.

Is this popularity? I can understand why everyone dreams of being a celebrity.

Hmph-. At that moment, Teacher Koga, who had been watching me with a disapproving look, snorted.

“You must have been lucky. Or met good teammates.”

Teacher Koga approached Geum Taesung and, with a coquettish voice, stroked his forearm with her palm.

“Taeseong, why don’t you come to Class F as well? With my recommendation, your grades should be enough to adapt well in Class F.”

I was the leader of our group, but for some reason, Teacher Kogae was more interested in Geum Taeseong. However, Geum Taeseong just shrugged as if he wasn’t very interested.

“I like Class D.”

“You’re good at fighting too. Only four people have lasted more than a minute in a sparring match with our Yeoreum. You’re one of them. Even though you’re a troublemaker, I appreciate your skills and I’m willing to accept you specially.”

Srrr-.

Teacher Kogae looked at Geum Taeseong with narrow eyes. She looked like a predator in the marriage market trying to catch a decent younger man.

But Geum Taeseong wasn’t easy either.

“I don’t fight anymore. Besides, Teacher, don’t you have something to say to Namjin instead of me?”

Yes, in fact, Teacher Kogae should have business with me, not Geum Taeseong.

I approached the teacher and puckered my lips like an octopus.

“What, what are you doing?”

“You promised to give me a kiss. A kiss.”

“…You smell, don’t you? Coming from the sewer! And you want to kiss me with a mouth that ate monsters? No way! At least brush your teeth!”

“Teacher, are you going to go back on your word? A teacher who educates Awakeners! If you go back on your word, what will the students who see that think?”

“Grrr!”

Teacher Kogae’s face turned red and she snorted. She seemed embarrassed because she liked kissing me so much. Women are really not honest.

At times like this, even though I’m younger, it’s better for me, a man, to take the lead, right?

I wrapped my hand around the teacher’s waist and kissed her on the lips.

“Ah!”

Teacher Kogae seemed flustered by the sudden event. She soon rubbed her lips with her palm and spat in frustration.

“It was my first kiss!”

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I didn’t care and raised my hands high like a winner lifting a trophy.

“I’m number one!

“Majun, cheer up. It’s just a peck. Not even a kiss.”

“Shut up!”

Alright, alright.

Today’s main character is me again.

Squirm, squirm-.

At that moment, my stomach churned violently.

“Excuse me, just a moment. I need to go to the bathroom.”

I quickly got down from the podium set up on the playground and headed to the back of the nearby auditorium. Then, with the intention of voting everything inside me, I opened my mouth wide!

“Uweeeck!”

━Gyuing.

What came out of my stomach was only Yingying.

The blue slime, Yingying.

Seeing it made the tightness in my chest, which had been bothering me until just now, instantly feel better and I felt good.

“Yingying! Nice to see you! I really am lucky!”

Why am I lucky? Because with Yingying, I could use the concept stones of “nose” and “eyes” that I had obtained after defeating the monster before!

Since we’re on the topic, let’s do it right away!

Clatter. I took out the concept stones I had put in my pocket and held them out to Yingying.

Yingying, who had been very wary of me after being eaten by me, slowly climbed onto my palm as if it sensed something from the concept stones.

━Gyuing.

And then it ate the concept stones with its body!

Wriggle, wriggle-.

How much did Yingying’s body tremble on my palm? Finally, it spat out a small, round bead from its body. As if it was spitting out nutrients that were useless to it.

“Looks like ‘eyes’ and ‘nose’ didn’t suit you, Yingying? Well, I guess a slime doesn’t really need eyes and a nose.”

━Gyuing.

When a monster consumes a “concept stone,” it only absorbs the concepts that are useful to it and spits out the unnecessary concepts after taking in just the right amount of nutrients.

Here, nutrients are toxins that are beneficial to the monster but harmful to the human body. In other words, the bead that Yingying spat out was a “concept stone” with the toxins removed.

And it was a fusion concept stone that combined the concepts of “eyes” and “nose.”

If I sold this in the ‘market,’ I would have gotten at least 1,000 bottle caps.

With that money, I could have lived in a safe shelter for a few weeks, drinking clean water and eating uncontaminated food. It was a very high price.

But right now, there is no market to accept this item.

So, what should I do?

Should I eat it?

Or should I give it to Seo Ga-eul to enhance Seo Ga-eul’s abilities?